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Creve Coeur Healthcare

Medical Capital of St. Louis County

Creve Coeur is home to two of the region’s major medical facilities, St. John’s Mercy Medical Center and Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital, and serves as the medical capital of St. Louis County. Missouri Baptist Medical Center, SSM DePaul Medical Center and St. Luke’s Hospital are within a few minutes drive outside the city. Additionally, two premier medical research centers, Saint Louis University and Washington University, are within a 20-minute drive.

Area medical centers have demonstrated their commitment to the continued growth and investment in the local community. St. John’s Mercy Medical Center is in the midst of a seven-year, $500 million redevelopment of its 46-acre campus which includes the David C. Pratt Cancer Center that opened in 2003, the addition of two floors of all private rooms for maternity patients in 2004, and in summer 2006 a new $140 million Heart Hospital housing comprehensive cardiac services, a new emergency department with St. Louis County’s only Level I trauma center and dedicated pediatric emergency room.

St. John’s Mercy is a fully accredited teaching hospital with additional specialty services including neurosciences, rehabilitation, orthopedics, sports rehabilitation medicine, and diabetes programming. The Medical Center has 979 licensed beds, a 120-bed skilled nursing center, employs more than 5,000 staff and has a medical staff of more than 1,100 physicians. Its parent organization, St. John’s Mercy Health Care, includes the Medical Center in Creve Coeur, St. John’s Mercy Hospital in Washington, Mo., Mercy Medical Group, and Unity Health Services — together employing more than 8,000, the eighth-largest employer in St. Louis.

Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital is well known for its expertise in orthopedics and sports medicine, cosmetic surgery, radiology and diagnostic imaging services, gastroenterology, urology, sleep disorders, internal medicine, asthma allergies and so much more. The nearly 200 active and highly acclaimed physicians and surgeons who practice at Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital are respected private practice physicians or are affiliated with Washington University School of Medicine. The hospital is a 74-bed facility with four medical office buildings residing on campus offering patients ease of access. To ensure the best quality of care for patients, Barnes-Jewish West County Hospital is continuously striving to offer the latest in medical advances. The new Outpatient Surgical Center fills the need for increasing out-patient surgery and the recently opened Emergency Department offers immediate access to quality medical care.

From its humble beginnings in 1884 in the home of Dr. William Mayfield, Missouri Baptist Medical Center has grown into the existing campus located on Ballas Road near the intersection of I-270 and Hwy. 40 (I-64), a facility licensed for 489 beds, with four adjacent medical office buildings.

With 1,400 physicians on staff and more than 2,500 employees, the hospital provides a full spectrum of medical and surgical services, with specialization in cardiac & vascular services, oncology, ortho/neuro/spine, gastroenterology and obstetrics.

In fact, to ensure that the healthcare needs of the community are continually being met, MBMC is building an addition to the hospital that will house a new emergency department and many of the clinical services mentioned above. The addition will open in 2007.

The national healthcare spotlight shone on MBMC in 2002, when it was named the first-ever recipient of the American Hospital “Quest for Quality” Prize by the American Hospital Association. The honor recognized MBMC for its leadership and innovation in patient care quality, safety and commitment.

SSM DePaul Health Center, a full-service Catholic hospital, recently celebrated its 175th anniversary as the first hospital west of the Mississippi River and the oldest continuously existing business in St. Louis. SSM DePaul, part of SSM Health Care, the first healthcare winner of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, offers all private patient rooms at no extra charge. DePaul’s Emergency Department is staffed 24 hours a day with board-certified, emergency residency-trained physicians, offering diagnostic and treatment services including trauma care, and the center’s cardiac surgery team performs more than 800 surgeries each year.

The high-quality, skilled care nursing center, Delmar Gardens of Creve Coeur, provides exceptional care for area elderly residents needing residential care. Creve Coeur is also home to many medical professionals and specialists, as well as several surgery centers and diagnostic clinics.